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The common neural bases between sexual desire and love: a multilevel kernel density fMRI analysis
Authors
Cacioppo, Stéphanie
Bianchi-Demicheli, Francesco
Frum, Chris
Pfaus, James G
Lewis, James W
Published in Journal of Sexual Medicine. 2012, vol. 9, no. 4, p. 1048-54
Abstract One of the most difficult dilemmas in relationship science and couple therapy concerns the interaction between sexual desire and love. As two mental states of intense longing for union with others, sexual desire and love are, in fact, often difficult to disentangle from one another.
Keywords Brain/physiology — Brain Mapping — Dominance, Cerebral/physiology — Female — Humans — Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted — Imaging, Three-Dimensional — Libido/physiology — Love — Magnetic Resonance Imaging — Male — Nerve Net/physiology — Retrospective Studies
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PMID: 22353205
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Faculté de médecine / Section de médecine clinique / Département de gynécologie et d'obstétrique
Research group Organisation de la fonction sexuelle humaine (692)
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(ISO format) 		CACIOPPO, Stéphanie et al. The common neural bases between sexual desire and love: a multilevel kernel density fMRI analysis. In: Journal of Sexual Medicine, 2012, vol. 9, n° 4, p. 1048-54. https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:29184

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